Writing Today, 2nd Edition

Description

With a clear and easy-to-read presentation, visual instruction and pedagogical support, Writing Today is a practical and useful guide to writing for college and beyond.

This text teaches how to transfer their writing skills to careers. By teaching kinds of writing (analyses, reports, proposals, etc.), strategies for writing (narration, comparison, argumentation, etc.), and processes for writing (planning, drafting, revising, etc.), Writing Today provides the writer with tools they can mix and match as needed to respond effectively to many writing situations.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Getting Started

Chapter 1: Writing and Genres

What Are Genres?

Using Genres to Write Successfully

Genre and the Writing Process

Using Genres in College and Your Career

Quick Start Guide

Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This

Chapter 2: Topic, Angle, Purpose

Topic: What Am I Writing About?

Angle: What is New About the Topic?

Purpose: What Do I Want to Accomplish?

Choosing the Appropriate Genre

Quick Start Guide

Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This

Chapter 3: Readers, Contexts, and Rhetorical Situations

Profiling Readers

Analyzing the Context

Genres and the Rhetorical Situation

Quick Start Guide

Talk About This, Try This Out, Write This

Part 2: Using Genres to Express Ideas

Chapter 4: Memoirs

Overview

*One Student’s Work: “Diving In” by Helen Sanderson

Inventing Your Memoir’s Content

Organizing and Drafting Your Memoir

Choosing an Appropriate Style

Designing Your Memoir

Revising and Editing Your Memoir

MicroGenre: The Literacy Narrative

Frederick Douglass, “Learning to Read and Write”from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass